TerraAtlas

A TerraAtlas presents aerial photos and overlays in a brochure
format optimized for printing. It can be downloaded in a PDF
format. A TerraAtlas looks like a map street atlas, but with
imagery in the background. TerraAtlas is automatically produced,
with a user choice of imagery and data layers, for any rectangular
area or for a known geographical zone, e.g. a zipcode or a city.
For downloading and self-printing, TerraAtlases are produced at 150
dpi (dots per inch). For publication, TerraAtlases are produced at
300 to 1200 dpi. The NASA Regional Applications Center has
published a Washington TerraAtlas (ISBN 0-9764201-090000) and
intends to publish TerraAtlases for all major US cities.

You can aquire a hardcopy of this artistically published atlas here or custom-make your own here.

You can specify the area of your interest
by entering (1) street address (or geographical coordinates) and optionally (2) the
size of the image (width/height of the image or geographical boundaries):

TerraFly's order page presents a list of atlases available for the area of
your interest as a table with the following columns:

Base Resolution, meters/pixel - Resolution of the images used to make the atlas.
At 1m (one meter) resolution, 1pixel of the image represents 1 square meter of
the area, similarly at 1ft (foot) resolution 1pixel=1 sq.ft =
0.3048x0.3048 sq.m.
This corresponds to the scale of the atlas: the resolution of 1 meter
per pixel at 150 dots per inch roughly turns into the scale of 1:6000,
the resolution of 2 meters per
pixel corresponds approximately to the 1:12000 scale, 4 meters/pixel - 1:24000,
and so forth.

Size, pixels - the size in pixels of the original image used to generate
your atlas. For example, the notation 2000x1000 describes a rectangular image of width 2000
pixels and height 1000 pixels. Note that if the resolution of this
image is 1m, then the
image covers 2x1 kilometers of the actual geographic area.

File format - Custom-made TerraAtlases are currently shipped in the PDF format, which can be
viewed at and printed by Acrobat Reader, available free of charge here.

Overlay - an additional data layer over the imagery. The most popular overlay is Street Names overlay, displaying street names over the
image. There are two options for street overlays: NavStreets (street network data
from Navigation Technologies provides the highest quality data available in
North America and Europe) and Tiger streets (produced by the United
States Census; while
it has accurate geometry over many areas, offsets in street name labels is
noticeable in some cases).